Robert Wichard Pohl was born in Hamburg as the son of the naval engineer Eugen Robert Pohl and his wife Martha. She was the daughter of WichardLange [de]
Pohl's father was the physicist Robert Wichard Pohl (1884–1976), whose maternal grandfather was Friedrich WichardLange (1826–1884), a member of the Hamburg
Zusammenhange mit dem Culturleben der Völker, dargestellt, volume 3, 4th ed. WichardLange, Köthen: Schettler, 1883, p. 795. (in German) Margrit Strohbach, Johann
construction of the mausoleum for the late Prussian Field Marshal General Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Moellendorff (1724–1816) in the park of Gadow Palace